Independent inspection to AS 4349.1 by a registered building contractor. What you are buying, read by someone who has built. Report within 24 hours.
Roleystone is a hills lifestyle suburb, and the most important context for a pre-purchase building inspection here is the Roleystone-Kelmscott bushfire of 6 February 2011, which destroyed seventy-two homes and damaged thirty-seven others in one of Western Australia’s worst single-fire house losses. That event means the suburb now holds three distinct categories of home: those rebuilt to a BAL rating after the fire, those that survived without being destroyed, and those built or substantially rebuilt since. A pre-purchase read here starts by identifying which category the home belongs to.
If the home is a post-fire rebuild, the building read covers BAL-rated construction. Homes built in a Bushfire Attack Level zone to a specific rating must meet requirements for their ember protection, their glazing, their external cladding and their eaves, and a pre-purchase inspection reads the building envelope for whether those elements are in place. Knowing that a home was rebuilt to BAL 29 or BAL 40 requirements, and that those requirements are met, is the information the price should be based on.
If the home survived the fire without being destroyed, the question is whether it has been upgraded since. Surviving homes were not always required to meet the post-fire BAL standards that new builds in the zone must meet, so an original pre-fire home may still carry the original construction, without current ember protection and glazing. A pre-purchase read notes where the fire-resilience elements sit relative to what a new build in the same zone would require today.
For all Roleystone homes, the site read applies: large sloping blocks with retaining walls, winter runoff management, and subfloor conditions on a steep Darling Range site are part of what a buyer is taking on alongside the building itself.
A pre-purchase inspection gives you the building scope on its own, to AS 4349.1, with the defects that matter set out plainly and separated from the cosmetic. In Roleystone, where the fire history divides the suburb, that reading is what tells you which home you are buying and what it means. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Lesmurdie and Forrestfield.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, starting with the 2011 bushfire history that divides the suburb into post-fire rebuilds, surviving homes and new builds.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
A Bushfire Attack Level measures the fire risk a building faces and dictates construction requirements for ember protection, glazing, cladding and eaves. Post-fire rebuilds in the affected zone must meet these requirements.
The building envelope: ember screens, glazing compliance, external cladding and eaves construction, to assess whether the rebuild was done to the zone's BAL requirements.
Whether it has been upgraded since, because surviving homes were not always required to meet post-fire BAL standards, and an unmodified pre-fire home may lack the fire-resilience elements that a new build in the same zone must have.
Yes. A post-fire BAL-compliant rebuild and an unmodified pre-fire survivor are different homes at the same address, and the price should reflect which one you are buying.
Retaining walls, site drainage managing winter runoff, and subfloor conditions on a steep slope are all part of what a buyer takes on alongside the building.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
Yes. Native bushland, leaf litter, established gardens and moist Darling Range conditions give termites the cover and food they use, so the combined inspection covers the pest side in the same visit.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Roleystone — both scopes in one visit to AS 4349.1 and AS 4349.3, one report within 24 hours.
Combined B&P inspection →Our office is at Suite 55, 15 Labouchere Road, South Perth WA 6151 — on the Swan River foreshore near the Perth Zoo.
Tell us about the property and what you need. We'll come back to you with a firm quote and a time.
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